>In Europe this is mostly working well, although depending on the country there are still a lot of illegal (heavy, fast, throttle-equipped, unlicensed, beyond even class 3) bikes on the roads, bike lanes and bike paths.

There were a lot of these in Oxford (UK) until a year or two ago when they all got replaced with scooters[1]. I suspect the police started clamping down on the illegal e-bikes which are easy to spot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(motorcycle)

Its worse but we are more dependent on it than ever.

I always find it frustrating that most stores turn over their stock so often. I find a shirt I like then go back to buy another and it's gone.

> Job sector growth (after revisions down) has been almost entirely within the healthcare industry which is quite unsustainable.

Someone has to wipe our Boomer arses. An aging population means more healthcare and less of everything else.

> Someone has to wipe our Boomer arses. An aging population means more healthcare and less of everything else

And a much more intense shift to financialization.

Pension funds tends to target an IRR of around 20-30%, and it is they that are the biggest pools of capital that funds invest.

You ain't hitting that amount of IRR without an extreme degree of financial ruthlessness.

Productivity is the ratio of real GDP to total hours worked.

That's labor productivity, a different measure. But the original article references labor productivity, so your definition is more relevant.

But Starling has always been app only?

You can bank via the website here: https://app.starlingbank.com/login

Might be more limited than the app though.

Starling Bank has been officially supporting GrapheneOS using Android's hardware attestation API (not the Play Integrity API) since 2024.

It's not possible to login to the web-based banking without the app. It's a hard requirement to access the account.

My bank’s password field is case insensitive. Of course they could have lowercased it before hashing but I doubt it.

That's scary. I wonder if incompetence like that could lead to a lawsuit in the case of a breach.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if there exists a system that just asks for username with a checkbox "check here if you are the owner of this account"

Yeah but it’s in his interest to encourage an arms race with China.

OK, but the other view equally compatible with the evidence is that he is scared of getting rolled by an AI-dominant China and that's why he's building tools for the dept of defense.

Like I said you can believe whatever you want about good-faith motives, but he didn't have to say he wanted to pause AI, he could have been bright-and-cheery bullish, there was no real advantage to laying his cards out on his qualms.

Answer the question.

If the USA pauses AI development, do you think China will?

What about the reverse? If China announces a unilateral pause, would the US follow?

I know this is a bit way out there but I suspect the average person isn’t going for four hour bike rides.

> This last, I dunno, 35 years or so, Visual Basic, Delphi, whatnot, producing code has been very easy

I’m not so sure about that. It’s very easy to take your own knowledge for granted. Most people can’t do what we do. Most of my customers couldn’t even express what they wanted.

Exactly. Software development is 20% of what your average software developer does. Figuring out what to build is a skill some don’t even realise they are doing every day, and it’s an incredibly valuable skill.

> Most of my customers couldn’t even express what they wanted.

And AI doesn't help with that. At all. This is the part where I said figuring out what to build is hard.